Believe yourself
instead of believing those teachers
who dig and dig and dig
deep into the catacombs and fetid sewers of
Yeats
Whitman
Updike
Dickinson and Poe
Believe yourself
not the colorful driftwood of
PHDs
Profs
Deans
Shit-slingers and Critics
Believe what you feel
Not what they know
sounds like you're having a tough time with teachers... :) I love this because I have too many teachers who tear everything apart and sometimes it really just sucks. I'm a big fan of "the colorful driftwood"
ReplyDeletelove this. "shit slingers" is a wonderful choice of words :)
ReplyDeletestephen you write a lot of poems about writing poems.
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